City & State Lillian Bonsignore Mamdani Appointment-FDNY Commish.

https://www.cityandstateny.com/personality/2025/12/mamdani-appoints-lillian-bonsignore-lead-fdny/410370/****** Lillian Bonsignore-Bronx native-longtime EMT has been appointed as new FDNY head. The problems she faces are pay inequities with other first responders for EMT and RESPONSE TIMES. Now here's a conundrum. Ben Furnas- the head of CAR HATING Transportation Alternatives has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team. Should he succeed the career and job seeking pol Ydanis Rodrieguez The Apple could be faced with a faster build out of Vision Zero. Vision Zero is substantially responsible for the slower EMS response times. Bike lanes. Bike racks. Vastly increased ridership especially with the problematic E-Bikes and micro transport brigades. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Outgoing Eric Adams liked to ride a bike-or so photo ops conveyed. Look at the coterie of appointments and resignations that resulted. Mamdani and outgoing Comptroller Lander like to ride bikes. Let's see how indicated zealotry stacks up against corruption. Will pragmatism win the day? JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has offered to "Help" the incoming administraton. He says some of his Democratic friends are "idiots." My veteran of the bike industry take is that zealotry will lock horns with pragmatism. Let's hope female transition team exercises compassion and pragmatism. Randy Mastro who brought experience and professionalism to Deputy Mayor's office refuses to work in a Democratic Socialist administration. He and Jessica Tisch semi rescued competence under the tarnished Adams administration. The city has voted for a youthful experiment. Stay alert. Stay alive. Let's hope a pragmatic approach is taken to public safety.

RAD Power Bikes files Capt 11

RAD e-bikes is one of a series of e-bike companies that have being having a rough ride. The pandemic enthusiasm has quelled. Perhaps because of the danger. Leaving the more adventuraous and fancy free to run the road. And in need of regulation. Priscilla's Law anyone? ****https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rad-power-bikes-files-bankruptcy-172850412.html***

Boston ***Editorial-New Laws Needed To Keep Up With Microtransport Explosion Trouble

EDITORIAL A tragedy in Stoneham should spark a push to update Mass. rules for micromobility devices Massachusetts law hasn’t kept up with rapidly changing micromobility technology that’s blurring the lines between bikes, e-bikes, mopeds, dirt bikes, motorcycles, and scooters. Editorial BoardDecember 1st, 2025, 8:20 am Listen The death of 13-year-old Parker Robles, a middle school student who was killed when his electric dirt bike crashed into a car in Stoneham the week before Thanksgiving, is a sobering wake-up call to the safety issues cropping up in many Massachusetts communities with the proliferation of high-speed electric mobility devices. Those devices go by different names and come in a huge variety of styles, from electric skateboards to quasi-mopeds, which is one of the reasons that regulating them has proven to be so challenging. They can also be easily modified. According to police, the Stoneham crash is still under investigation. What is clear, though, is that Massachusetts law hasn’t kept up with rapidly changing micromobility technology that’s blurring the lines between bikes, e-bikes, mopeds, dirt bikes, motorcycles, and scooters. The result is that young children and unlicensed drivers are operating high-speed devices capable of

Time Mag-How 200 protesters Foiled an ICE raid on Canal St

This is a quote from a Time article detailing how New Yorkers rose against an ICE garage on Canal St prior to a raid. The quote is from a woman on Mayor Elect Mamdani's transition team. Let's hold them to their stated intention to defend the rights and dignity of all New Yorkers Public Safety in the form of a safe walking and riding and driving environment.***********"New York City's more than three million immigrants are central to our city's strength, vitality, and success, and the Mayor-elect remains steadfast in his commitment to protecting the rights and dignity of every single New Yorker, upholding our sanctuary laws, and deescalation rather than use of unnecessary force," Monica Klein, a transition spokesperson.********* Mayor Elect Mamdani as an immigrant from Uganda is in a excellent position to address the large immigrant group currently serving as mainstay of the delivery industry.

NYDN--AM Mamdani on bikes Aug 25

Candidate Mamdani the probable next mayor of New York City is in favor of advancing bike lanes that have stalled under outgoing Mayor Adams and his multiply indicted aide Lewis Martin. Possibly AM Mamdani is not aware of the lack of an environmental impact study. Possibly he has overlooked the lack of a responsible bike/micro transport culture due to the arm twisting and sophistry of Transportation Alternatives.He must be aware of the daily danger and damage to the quality of life. It behooves New Yorkers concerned about the public safety crisis to contact his camapign and Albany office to urge him to co-sponsor Priscilla's Law and any bill focussed on PUBLIC SAFETy. 518-8455-5014 There has been a reckless disregard for public safety since the first Bloomberg administration. If elected Mamdani faces a challenge to establish a lawful environment on the streets and sidewalks of Gotham. A challenge but doable. Let's encourage him.**** https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/25/mamdani-promises-to-push-forward-with-bus-and-bike-lane-projects-adams-scaled-back-or-killed/?lctg=0

WNYC-Brian Lehrer Show-E-bike problem

Brian Lehrer who cycles and was resistant to bringing on public safety advocates to his show brings on a policy wonk and Deliverista rep to discuss how to deal with the crisis caused by the rampant and often lawless behavior of micromobility operators. Andrew Cuomo is heard from. Again the problem inheres in the fact that Transportation Alternatives twisted arms and exercised undue influence in opposing enforcement by the NYPD thereby pursuing a reckless indifference to public safety and blowing off a responsible bike culture. NOT RATIONAL. New York has been taken for a ride. Many of the deaths and numberless injuries and close calls could have been avoided had a responsible approach been taken. An environmental impact study. Enforcement. This was in the words of former Brooklyn BP Marty Markowitz "zealotry". Arrogance. Hubris. Done with sophistry arm twisting for the benefit of real estate. Charles Komanoff -sophist in chief. Mark Gorton-ardent supporter of current Sec. of Health Robt F. Kennedy Jr the principle funder. We the people hoist on their petard.**** https://www.wnyc.org/story/nj-sen-cory-booker-city-politics-state-race-30-issues-30-days-regulating-micromobility-vehicles/

AM/NY Op-Ed Amazon Two Day Shipping dangerous "Last Mile delivery center"-culprits

An Op-Ed by CMs Tiffany Caban, Alexa Aviles & Theodore Moore of ALIIGN make cogent points about the Last Mile delivery centers spawned by Amazon under different names. Endangering the workers-clad in Amazon vests but not Amazon emloyees in the streets and the neighborhoods where the centers are located. The CMs have introduced 2 bills to address issues. First is "to crack down" on the pollution facilities dump into the air". The second "The Delivery Protection Act" requires companies to directly employ drivers and warehouse workers. Protect them from retaliation and ensure safety on the job. Clearly tech has run amuck. Big tech has caused a radical and dangerous imbalance in wealth distribution and the trickle down effect is exploitation and damage to quality of life.****https://www.amny.com/news/op-ed-amazon-nyc-two-day-shipping/